America's Armed Force Analysis

The military has been instrumental in the protection and development of U.S interests around the world. From the Revolutionary War, which established the United States as a nation, through the World Wars, which set up the U.S as one of the world super powers, to its current war on terror, the military has helped and protected U.S. interests around the world. During all these wars American soldiers have proudly served their country. Because of these wars America is famous throughout the world for military power and its protection of freedom in the world. Today the U.S is an international symbol of wealth and power; it has the largest Gross Domestic Product in the world as well as the strongest military. Yet even America falls prey to a

Further more, it implied that something was threatening the American democracy, the foundation upon which we rely, and the one thing that ensures the continued freedom that is so precious to the American public.

A) The title of the book is The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War and the author is Andrew Bacevich. The book was published in New York, New York by the publisher Oxford University Press in the year 2005. It is the first edition and contains 270 pages.

Ever since the beginning of time, there has been conflict and conflict will always play a role in the development of history. The world has experienced hundreds of wars with countless casualties, these wars date back to the 10th Century and forward to the present. The United States of America is no stranger to war having participated in over 100 wars either it being a small war or a world war. Michael C. C. Adams “The Best War Ever” gives a rational explanation on the events that led the U.S to become the powerhouse country after sacrificing so much for the war, or did they? In this paper we will support the argument made in Adams “The Best War Ever” Chapter four, appropriately titled “The American War Machine”, other primary sources used will be such as Harry S. Truman first speech to congress in April 1945 and General George S. Patton’s praise speech to the Third Army. The argument being that the U.S did in fact play an impacting role in the outcome of World War 2 but how it also used appearances as an advantage to further develop itself as an international force, just like the tale from the Trojan War, the Trojan horse was all about appearances but with a precise objective.

In President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation, he warned the United States to strive for continuous balance so that the power of the military and industrial complex would not harm the democratic process. The goal was to maintain agreement and compromise on issues existing in the current moment, as well as the solutions that would help to shape the nation in the coming future. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment (Eisenhower, II).

“When Governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” (Beck 35). This quote is from one of the greatest men in the history of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson, the father of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States. The validity of his statement is not only historical, but as pertinent today as it was when spoken anew. It is learned in schools across the nation, although the importance of the words depends on the teacher, school, and region of the country. During the revolutionary period, King George learned this same concept the hard way, “…an armed populace is a populace that will not be pushed around.”

In order to advance the vital interests of the United States, we need a military that is equipped with best of everything and the backing of a nation to use them to defend our national interests and goals when needed.

Our founding fathers didn’t always trust the government and that is why they created The Bill Of Rights. In The Bill Of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. It was created to protect the individual's freedoms and prohibitions on governmental power. Amendment one, freedom of religion, speech, the press, and the right of the people to assemble peacefully. You were allowed to “attack” the government in a peaceful way by assembling and if that didn't work, That’s when amendment two comes in clutch. Amendment two, the right of the people to keep and bear arms. When peacefully assembling is not working to change the government, that is when the government is letting use the hard hand. That’s definitely always keeping

In a 2015 article, “Is U.S. military becoming outdated?” written by Stuart Bradin, Keenan Yoho, and Meaghan Keeler-Pettigrew, the authors argued that despite the U.S. military maintaining a position of global dominance “without peer” during conventional operations, it is not the ideal force against current and future threats. The authors claim that there are several negative factors arising due to the past sixteen years of war against several state and non-state elements, inferior cultural differences of government bureaucracy compared to commercial firms, and a misallocation of defense spending that leaves the US military waging war inefficiently while simultaneously losing technological dominance against current and future threats.

The American military power

By mid-1942, World War II was looking bleak for the Allied powers. The German Wehrmacht was blitzing through Soviet Russia, the Luftwaffe had laid waste to much of London, Rommel was about to take Africa, and the Japanese nearly had control of the Pacific. Fortunately, as the Axis started running low on materiel, America was increasing the Allied supply dramatically. This enormous production capacity displayed by the U.S. was the product of their new military-industrial complex, as plants across the country geared up production of weapons and combat vehicles and the government began pumping resources into the creation of new military-oriented production facilities. The American

As Richard Henry Lee once stated in a letter written to Arthur Lee, “North America is now most dimly united and as firmly resolved to defend their liberties ad infinitum against every power on Earth that may attempt to take it away.”

It is a lamentable truth that tyranny has arguably existed as long as one human has had the power to control another through force in a society. This was the case with the Pharaohs of Egypt thousands of years of ago, and is still the case today in North Korea and other parts of the world. It has always been the dream of enlightened and free people to seek and destroy tyranny in any form in which it is found because it is the ultimate affront to the freedom of will and thought which they themselves enjoy. In order to understand how tyranny may be forever eradicated, it is necessary to compare ways in which tyranny is incompatible with being free in various ways. Though tyranny, by definition, affects all freedom of those under its lash, it begins by oppressing the mind, which leads to a

During WWII, our relationship with the Soviets was a partnership of convenience – part of the allied arrangement necessary to defeat Hitler. During the war, Roosevelt visualized a post war order that would be policed by the new world superpowers – U.S., China, Britain and the Soviet Union would all maintain peace and order within their world region (Avey, 2012). In spite of U.S. recognition that the Soviets were committed to an expansionist effort in post-war Europe, the United States retained a policy of restraint keeping to Roosevelt's idea that the Soviets would do the right thing. During the Truman administration, and as Soviet expansionism increased, the U.S. policies became less cordial and grew more confrontational. The change in our behavior was not factored on a collision of ideology with the Soviets, it was based on the balance of power (Avey, 2012). I think this is extremely relevant to today's global discourse and because we have squandered and marginalized our own world status, we have allowed other groups to fill

Next, the president is the leader of the forces of peace and war. Although the power of foreign relationships is shared between the president, congress, and senate, he has the dominant position. Without him, leadership in foreign affairs would not flow at all. The constitution appoints him as both the head of state and the head of government of the United States, and the Commander in Chief of the armed forces. He must always remember, even in times of peace, that he will be held accountable by people, Congress, and history for the nation’s preparation to handle the